Africa: World Health Day 2025 To Spotlight Women And Babies' Survival, Urging Solidarity At A Critical Moment For Global Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially announced the theme of World Health Day 2025, Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, which will focus on improving… Read more »

Africa: Strengthening Alliances and Building Movements to End Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation is a violation of human rights that inflicts deep and lifelong physical, emotional and psychological scars on girls and women. This harmful practice… Read more »

Africa: WHO Calls for Greater Attention to Violence Against Women With Disabilities and Older Women

Older women and women with disabilities face particular risk of abuse, yet their situation is largely hidden in most global and national violence-related data, according to two new… Read more »

Africa: New Series Highlights the Importance of a Positive Postnatal Experience for All Women and Newborns

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN's Special Programme on Human Reproduction (HRP) have launched a new series on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal care… Read more »

Africa: One in Three Men Worldwide Are Infected With Genital Human Papillomavirus

A new study has been published in The Lancet Global Health showing that almost 1 in 3 men over the age of 15 are infected with at least one genital human papillomavirus (HPV) type,… Read more »

Africa: WHO Addresses Violence Against Women As a Gender Equality and Health Priority

Together with UN Women, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched the RESPECT… Read more »

Sudan: Top UN Officials Sound Alarm At Spike in Violence Against Women and Girls

Senior United Nations officials today voiced shock and condemnation at increasing reports of gender-based violence in Sudan - including conflict-related sexual violence against… Read more »

Africa: Global Congress Opens to Counter Harmful Marketing of Formula Milk

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are hosting the first Global Congress on the implementation of the International Code of… Read more »

Africa: 152 Million Babies Born Preterm in the Last Decade

Of every 10 babies born, 1 is preterm - and every 40 seconds, 1 of those babies dies Preterm birth rates have not changed in the past decade in any region of the world The impacts… Read more »

Africa: Lifesaving Solution Dramatically Reduces Severe Bleeding After Childbirth

A new solution, known as E-MOTIVE, could provide a major breakthrough in reducing deaths from childbirth-related bleeding, according to a landmark study published today by… Read more »